CFP: [Professional] Writing into the Profession: Enacting and Exploring Roles of the English Scholar (Grad)

full name / name of organization:

Kimberly Reigle

contact email:

kgreigle@uncg.edu

The deadline for submissions to UNCG's Graduate conference, Writing intothe Profession, has been extended to June 30th.

Since our first two conferences met with such success, The University ofNorth Carolina -Greensboroâ€™s English Graduate Student Association againasks, â€œWhat you working on?â€ for its third interdisciplinary conferencein English studies. We are each â€œWriting into the Professionâ€ as weemploy the theories and practices of effective English scholarship. Thisis not your usual CFPâ€”weâ€™re not asking you to bend your interests to suita specific theme. Instead, we want you to use our conference as anopportunity to explore and enact just what it means to be part of theEnglish profession. Bring whatever you are currently working on andengage in productive dialogue with other graduate students who are alsobeginning to write themselves into the profession. Explore what it meansto enter English Studies as a professional as you present your work at aconference, honestly engage your peer's work, and participate in acomfortable, open forum with current professionals who will answerquestions you may have about the daily practices of scholars in ourfield. We invite you to share your current interests with us andencourage you to leave us with open-ended questions to fuel discussion.

This conference is designed to provide area graduate scholars anopportunity to share their current research among peers in anon-threatening and receptive academic environment. We hope to build agreater sense of community and create a useful dialogue among fellowgraduate students.

Proposals will be accepted on any topic related to English Studies, fromRhetoric/Composition to Literature, from Theory to Practice. Pleasesubmit a one-page proposal describing your current project by June 30,2008 via email to: uncg.egsa.graduateconference_at_gmail.com